listserv

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Clipping of listserver.

Noun

listserv (plural listservs)

  1. (Internet) A type of electronic mailing list, allowing for distribution of email to many subscribers.
    Synonym: mailbase
    • 2006, Mary E. Hawkesworth, Globalization and Feminist Activism, page 130:
      At subregional, regional, and global conferences, as well as through websites, listservs, cyberjournals, newsletters, and public reports and books, feminists from the South have articulated strategies to break down structural inequality […]
    • 2009 January 29, Jennifer Medina, “Backers of Mayoral School Control Face Resistance”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 9 March 2021:
      Rather than producing flashy television spots, it has placed simple ads on Web sites of news organizations and urbanbaby.com, and tried to spread its positions by posting on education and community listservs and blogs.
    • 2011 November 23, Benjamin Wallace, “The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin”, in Wired‎[2], San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 January 2025:
      [A] man named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin.
    • 2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents‎[3]:
      Last month, the Forward reported, a former student at Mechon Hadar—a co-ed egalitarian yeshiva in New York—emailed the school's listserv with a plea for the institution to cut ties with [Leslie] Wexner in light of the unspooling allegations against [Jeffrey] Epstein.
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